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Time and motivation are ticking away
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Leave a Comment Time is slowly ticking away before the EMBA starts on the 12th of Jan 2008. The hectic end-of-year period has started where everybody brushes up on their good behaviour as the end-of-year reviews are just around the corner. My projects and performance over the year sofar don’t give me any reason to be ‘worried’. Thoughts if I want to continue my career in finance still keep lingering on, hopefully the EMBA tour will shed some light on my future career in terms of domain. Currently busy with the nth cash management design for a corporate cash management solution (supporting cash balances, cash forecast for all possible transaction types, IRS, CDS, etc) and a design for a new NAV based unit administration system. Bla bla bla … it just doesn’t tickle me anymore as it used to do 
Just wondering though that most MBA blogs I read have students wanting to get into the investment business, albeit, Investment Bank, Pension Funds, Hedge Fund, Private Equity, etc having worked for over a decade in this domain I wonder what the appeal is. After a while, everything becomes the same and its plays like a broken record, the nth M&A deal, the nth implementation of ‘new’/'exotic’ instruments, the nth new market-data interface, the nth trading platform … the nth of nth of the same.
Back to the EMBA, I noticed that strong emphasis is placed on good math skills*, for many of us EMBA’s doing hard-core maths is a while ago, the last time I calculated an integral is more than a decade ago 
. Fear not, I found this nifty little video, which explain how to do complex multiplication (we have to start small 
) calculations without a calculator.
Watch …
Entering Math trick as search criteria on Youtube will give you more Math-Goodies
* Many Beta mathematicians would argue if the (Alpha) Math in Finance is really math or just a lot of statistics and probability calculations, if so I would like to point them to the “Financial Engineering” concepts used for risk/return/strategy analysis of financial instruments.
